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For this SCP Mini, we haven’t drawn from outside materials or our interview guests. Instead, for the first time, we’ve used clips from our very first season of podcasts. Within that season, we were a rather different beast. Season Two almost entirely consists of interviews with other creatives about their work. In our first episodes, Benjamin and I simply recorded casual conversations about pre-set topics. It was a very formative time for us, but I still feel there are some interesting relics there. It makes for the most entertaining listening when the two of us argued, which would usually feature my explosive temper.…
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Originally known as Tell Your Children, Reefer Madness has become infamous. Better known today as an archetypal “stoner” movie, it was first released in 1936 as church group propaganda. As such, it’s full of nonsense. Later re-cut in 1938 by Dwain Esper into an even more tawdry film, I honestly have no idea which version I have here. Many consider it one of the best “bad movies”. For me, the current “bad movie” champion remains The Amazing Mr. X. With a myriad of public domain movies still to come, there’s plenty of time for it to be dethroned….…
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